Bachelor of Science
Health Sciences
Discover your passion and shape your future with our comprehensive health sciences major.
With so many choices in the field of health sciences, there’s an ideal career path for every interest. Oakland University’s Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences program lets you explore the full range of options while preparing you to make a difference in people’s lives. You’ll cultivate well-rounded expertise for diverse career pathways, choosing from health science tracks in pre-health professional studies, holistic health or pre-pharmacy. Our program enables you to get deeply involved in health sciences research, work in clinical settings and acquire hands-on experience that’s rarely available to undergraduate health science majors. Whether you advance to a graduate program or directly into the workforce, our health sciences degree sets you up to succeed.
With so many choices in the field of health sciences, there’s an ideal career path for every interest. Oakland University’s Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences program lets you explore the full range of options while preparing you to make a difference in people’s lives. You’ll cultivate well-rounded expertise for diverse career pathways, choosing from health science tracks in pre-health professional studies, holistic health or pre-pharmacy. Our program enables you to get deeply involved in health sciences research, work in clinical settings and acquire hands-on experience that’s rarely available to undergraduate health science majors. Whether you advance to a graduate program or directly into the workforce, our health sciences degree sets you up to succeed.
Bachelor’s in Health Sciences Degree: The Oakland University Advantage
Our health sciences program combines the resources of a major research university with the intimacy of a much smaller school. You’ll attend small classes and get one-on-one guidance from faculty, earning an intensive, personalized health sciences degree that promotes your success. Undergraduate health sciences research and clinical opportunities further enhance your study of health science, providing valuable real-world experience.
In Oakland University’s health sciences degree program, you can:
- Master essential knowledge. Build a rigorous and flexible academic foundation by adapting your health sciences degree to fit your needs. Our health sciences program promotes a broad perspective and versatile skills essential in health science careers that routinely involve collaboration among multiple specialists.
- Learn from the best. Most Oakland University health science courses are taught by senior faculty, not adjuncts or graduate students. Your professors will know you by name, understand your interests and strengths, and connect you with opportunities and resources that help you achieve your goals.
- Choose your specialty. In addition to a comprehensive STEM, liberal arts and social science core, you can focus your study of health science by choosing one of three health science tracks: pre-health professional studies, holistic health or pre-pharmacy.
- Shape a better future. Health science majors can build leadership skills with OU’s ECLIPSE initiative. One of the nation’s few student leadership programs specifically for health science majors, ECLIPSE emphasizes communication, teamwork, roles and values. You’ll work with fellow health science majors on campus and in the community, developing a portfolio of achievements that will set you apart in the job market and grad school applicant pool.
What Can You Do With a Health Sciences Degree?
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics expects health care jobs to grow much faster than the average for all occupations by 2032, adding nearly 2 million positions. Our health sciences degree is the first step toward almost any health science career, including professions that require graduate degrees or professional training.
Graduates of our health sciences program work in a wide variety of health care positions, including:
- Athletic trainer
- Community health organizer
- Dietician
- Health care facility coordinator
- Health educator
- Medical assistant
- Patient educator
- Pharmacist
- Physician
- Physician assistant
- Public health researcher
Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences: What You’ll Study
Our Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences program curriculum equips you with essential knowledge and skills for diverse health science career paths. Our health science courses also provide a solid foundation for advanced study. Top courses for health sciences majors include:
- Ethics in Health Care
- Health Behavior Theories
- Human Anatomy
- Introduction to Public Health
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